Fountain to spray this afternoon

Friday

Jul 29, 2011 at 12:01 AMJul 29, 2011 at 1:59 PM

The Bicentennial Park fountain on the Scioto Mile should be working again between 4 and 5 p.m. today.

Terri Leist, an assistant director at Columbus Recreation and Parks, called to say that the repairs to a broken pump should be completed this afternoon. The fountain, where hundreds of kids gather to beat the heat, closed on Thursday when a pump failed.

It closed on Wednesday afternoon for cleaning after what Leist then termed a "fecal incident." Translated, that's a kid pooping in the fountain.